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3 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Veli Nhlapo
Deputy President Paul Mashatile. Despite parliament voting to shut down the Israeli embassy nearly two years ago, deputy president Paul Mashatile says the move has not yet been implemented because SA still wants to maintain a presence in Israel. Mashatile was speaking during an interview on new podcast, IN THE KNOW with Sowetan. “Government has considered that fact. It's not that we didn't want to do it but when we implement these decisions, sometimes they go in phases.
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3 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Veli Nhlapo
Deputy President Paul Mashatile during Sowetan's In The Know podcast interview. Deputy president Paul Mashatile has poured cold water on claims the government of national unity (GNU) would be at risk if he were to become ANC president, saying the arrangement is working well. "I think they are just seeing ghosts," he said in an interview with IN THE KNOW with Sowetan, a new podcast. "The GNU is working well.
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3 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Veli Nhlapo
Deputy president Paul Mashatile has admitted that Durban businessman Moses Tembe – who is part of a consortium that was awarded the lucrative lotto licence contract – is his friend, but said he did not know Tembe was doing business with his sister-in-law.
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5 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Chris Gilili |Herman Moloi |Jeanette Chabalala |Veli Nhlapo
Some of the community members who struggle for water at Rabokala in Brits payneighbours with boreholes to supply them with water. Seven community development projects that a mining company allegedly budgeted R14.3m for have gone uncompleted while the firm goes into liquidation, leaving behind desperate people.
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2 weeks ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda |Veli Nhlapo
In a country where the youth face harsh struggles, including unemployment, identity crisis, mental health challenges, gender-based violence, a lack of skills centres, and rising levels of crime,Youth Day has, for some, become just another day. Sowetan hit the streets to speak to young people about the real issues they are facing. • Lungile Mpambani, 28, from KwaZulu-Natal "Our biggest challenge is drug abuse and the influx of foreign nationals in our country.
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2 weeks ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Koena Mashale |Veli Nhlapo
Members of Operation Dudula blocking car of foreigners at Jabulani, Soweto against the registration of foreign-owned spaza shops. Civil organisations have told the high court in Johannesburg that there is a need for legal clarity on Section 41 of the Immigration Act, which they argue is being used by Operation Dudula to unlawfully arrest and detain migrant children.
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2 weeks ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda |Herman Moloi |Veli Nhlapo
Shattered community members gather around a shrine erected in honour of Malcolm Booysen at the crash site where he died in Brakpan. For three minutes, 16-year-old Antonio Posthumus tried to resuscitate his friend Malcolm Booysens after he was hit by a car driven by a 12-year-old boy in Brakpan, Ekurhuleni. Unfortunately, the 14-year-old had already passed on. An ordinary weekend afternoon turned into tragedy when the young boy, who was allegedly driving at high speed, failed to obey a stop sign.
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2 weeks ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Sihle Ndebele |Veli Nhlapo
Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos was left impressed with newbies in their goalless draw against Tanzania in a friendly at Peter Mokaba Stadium on Friday, revealing he'll field a different team when SA host Mozambique on Tuesday. Kickoff in the second friendly at the same venue in Polokwane, Limpopo, is at (7.30pm).
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3 weeks ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Herman Moloi |Veli Nhlapo
A Soweto woman was forced to pack her bags and flee Protea South as the enraged community wanted to burn her neighbour’s shack where the decomposed body of his girlfriend was discovered on Friday. However, after being asked by other neighbours not to set it alight as the fire could spread to nearby shacks and destroy them, the angry residents demolished it. Police on Friday discovered the naked body of 20-year-old Ithabeleng Motleleng stuffed under a bed and wrapped in blankets and a carpet.
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3 weeks ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | David Isaacson |Veli Nhlapo
James Moloi, seen here with Steve Khanyile, was re-elected as president of Athletics South Africa on Saturday. James Moloi was re-elected president of Athletics South Africa (ASA) on Saturday, along with most of the board he worked with. John Mathane from Gauteng North takes over as vice-president from Shireen Noble and Kesaoleboga Molotsane from Athletics Free State (AFS) replaces Hendrick Mokganyetsi as the athletes’ representative.
